India just fired up the world's largest solar plant to power 150,000 homes

Things are heating up in India, where one of the world’s top polluting countries has unveiled the world’s largest solar power plant.

Tesla Flexes Its Solar Muscle By Powering An Entire Pacific Island

Pacific Islanders are among the most vulnerable people to climate change. This is a way of fighting back.

World's poorest countries to aim for 100% green energy

Representatives from 47 of the world's most disadvantaged nations have pledged to generate all their future energy needs from renewables.

Grass-to-gas farmers could meet UK renewable goals

Energy supplier Ecotricity has called for a big push in farm-based anaerobic digestion, which turns grass silage into cleaned-up biomethane for the gas grid.

Asia's Super Grid to Be Fueled by Clean Energy

As climate scientists forecast the dire consequences of global warming, and renewable energy becomes cheaper and cheaper to produce, there's a growing movement to create a global power grid fueled by clean energy.

Solar Power Turns Water and Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel

The pilot project in Finland will create liquid or gas fuel using only renewable energy sources.

A giant Danish company sales its oil and gas arm to focus on renewables

Danish energy giant has confirmed plans to sell its oil and gas business as part of the company's "strategic transformation" into a global leader in renewable energy.

Morocco blazes solar power trail

Morocco now has a very 21st century landmark: the world’s largest concentrated solar power (CSP) plant. With 500,000 parabolic mirrors, the plant — Noor 1 has a generating capacity of 160 megawatts.

Sweden on target for 100 percent electricity from renewable energy by 2040

The latest figures show that 52 percent of the country’s energy needs – including electricity, heating, and fuel – are met by renewables. This is the highest of any EU country.

The Netherlands will spend 150 million Euros to turn cow poop into biogas

The Netherlands will spend 150 million Euros on a program for farmers to turn cow poop into biogas using anaerobic digesters.

Government in Canada To Run On Green Power By 2025

The Government in Canada is promising to run all government operations on renewable energy within a decade. The switch is to be complete by 2025.

Elon Musk unveils Tesla/SolarCity integrated solar roof and Powerwall 2.0

Elon Musk finally unveiled the Tesla/SolarCity solar roof that integrates photovoltaics with roof covering for a seamless product that looks better and costs less over time than traditional roofs.

Renewables Now Exceed All Other Forms of New Power Generation

Last year, renewable energy accounted for more than half of all new forms of power generation produced worldwide. It's an unprecedented milestone for our civilization - one that points to a bright future for solar and wind power.

The world's first wind-hydro turbines will generate energy even when there's no breeze

The wind-hydro plant will be the first of its kind, and it’s set to be fully operational by 2018.

New professor studies energy in the emerging interdisciplinary field of sustainability science

Jennie Stephens focuses on under­standing how the social dynamics—including polit­ical power, insti­tu­tional norms, and gender— influ­ence deploy­ment of wind power, solar, and smart grids.